A total of 2,038 people died due to floods, lightning and landslides across India this monsoon so far, with the eastern state of Bihar reporting the highest casualty figure of 518 followed by Himachal Pradesh 330

Wildfires bore down on two Canadian cities Friday, with firefighters in the west bracing for another "scary" night as stunned refugees from the far north began arriving at shelters after their entire city was evacuated.

Despite Singapore's strict regulations to prevent money laundering through real estate, property transactions remain attractive for criminals looking to wash dirty money, said lawyers and property consultants

A British nurse who described herself as a "horrible evil person" was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked

Fighting between two rival generals has spread to cities in war-ravaged Sudan’s south, witnesses said yesterday, raising concerns for hundreds of thousands who have fled violence in the Darfur region.

US President Joe Biden was set to announce new security cooperation with Japan and South Korea yesterday, including joint exercises at a first-of-a-kind three-way summit with their leaders that has already rattled China.

North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council Thursday of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while its people go hungry and lack basic necessities.

The chief of the United Nations humanitarian relief agency has urged Myanmar’s ruling military to allow greater access to 18 million people in need of aid, describing the situation as critical as a post-coup conflict intensifies.

In a fresh round of violence in the Indian state of Manipur, mutilated bodies of three youths were found after heavy gunfire at Kuki Thowai village in Ukhrul district yesterday.

The World Health Organization and US health authorities said yesterday they are closely monitoring a new variant of Covid-19, although the potential impact of BA.2.86 is currently unknown.

Russian forces have destroyed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and its Black Sea Fleet, officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks on the capital and the flashpoint waterway.

More than four million Yemenis will receive less food assistance as a result of funding shortages, compounding one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the UN’s food agency warned yesterday.

A light plane crashed into a four-lane road near Malaysia's capital on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said

A strong earthquake followed by dozens of aftershocks rattled central Colombia and the capital Bogota on Thursday, setting off sirens and sparking brief panic, including in one woman who died after jumping from a building, authorities said.

More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

Germany’s biggest airport was scrambling to book passengers on new flights yesterday after a massive storm caused dozens of cancellations, and also triggered flooding that deluged streets and toppled trees.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian preached unity and dialogue during a visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday, his first since the two Middle East rivals announced a surprise rapprochement in March.

Russian security forces yesterday launched mass raids targeting the independent election monitoring group Golos, the group said, as its co-chair was taken in for questioning.

Thousands ordered to flee wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada’s far north crammed into a local airport yesterday to board emergency evacuation flights, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid that set off clashes in the flashpoint town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medical officials and militant groups said.